Hi, new to the forum simply because of this car! I have been an auto body guy for 20 plus years and now I teach auto body at Lincoln Tech in Melrose park Il. Enough about me. Doing this car again will be hard,expensive and tough BUT if you don't do it you will regret it. In my opinion, I would buy a diferent frame not because yours is too bad to repair [Which it isn't] but think about a little differently,if you have the frame seperate from the car your parts storage problem pretty much goes away as the car is intact. You get to do the frame complete before you have the mess of a torn apart car all over the garage, when it is done start swapping assemblies such as the motor/trans etc. and anything that you did not go thru the first time you did the car such as the rear differential etc. becomes a little less daunting to accomplish as you have only the parts and hardware from one assembly to keep track of instead of everything on the car. I have done several cars this way over the years and it works out quite well and I think that I have offset the cost of the replacement frame by not buying parts that were misplaced or damaged by being in the attic..or basement or garage or shed. You get the idea. Dont give up even though it sucks right now it will be an extremly cool car done just the way you want it when done! Good luck!